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iPhone + AT&T Fastest Smartphone/Carrier Combo in PCWorld Test

Is everyone using the speedtest.net app to capture their sup/down speeds? I winder how accurate is that poheam sometimes.
I'm consistently getting around 1.5mps down whereever I go in NYC. Though I'm not in manhattan much lately.
I have to admit.. Seems like AT&T has been making some significant difference in terms of speeds and less dropped calls. It's becoming fairly noticeable by now. I hope this only continues!

From Houston, Tx
Speedtest results to Austin, Tx server (on a 3GS):
2.551mbps down, 634kbs up.
Some of you guys got faster (although I'm still above the national average) download rates but so far it appears no other location gets over 600 up! Thank you AT&T! Although it probably helps that there's one of their new towers under half a mile from my house.

Wow I wish I was getting the speeds some of you are getting. I'm in Sacramento, Ca and the highest 3g speeds I've gotten is just over 1mbps. It's mind boggling that some of you are getting over 3mbps. I guess Sacramento isn't getting the same upgrades yet

Population density vs a coverage map makes all the difference...
Tour ignorant to believe that because your vzw coverage is complete in all of Colorado.... What flipping good is that?
More food for thought:
we constantly use mywi to get our xbox 360 on the net, weather were camping in the woods or at home, we get an ok ping, but minimal lag. Codmw2 anywhere we go :)

About a month ago I was in Penn Station by the LIRR ( NYC ) and I got around 4.4mbps. I was so shocked by this. It was very late at night, around 1pm so that has something to do with it.
However , on average, I do get 1.4mbps now a days during regular day time. The highest I ever got during day time was around 2.4mbps.
My data connection in my house has also became a lot more reliable. The voice ... not so much. There was also a point in time when I would get my text messages 10 minutes late and I think it has a lot to do with the connection going in and out.
Im not sure what exactly causes dropped calls, especially when you are stationary.

Here in Hawaii, AT&T coverage is excellent. I used to have Verizon (2008) and experienced more dropped calls. I did not have a smartphone then so I really can't compare the 3G experience. But overall, I am a very satisfied ATT/iPhone customer (just wish their prices were a bit lower, free texting would be great since we are already paying $30 for unlimited data).

Service is great in Chicagoland. However I have been visiting San Francisco the past few days and have had a few dropped calls and I would get voicemails pop up from people who tried to call but it went straight to vm.
I will say that walking around, the iPhone is the only phone you see. Everybody has one. That's got to be pretty taxing on a network...

Anyone else seeing their ATT 3G upload speed throttled back to either about 50 or 100Kbps?
I used to get consistent 245-265Kbps uploads until early Jan but in 20 speedtests since then it's always 49/50Kbps or 99/100/101Kbps. Never higher or in between. Odd.

Those coverage maps are deceiving. AT&T 3G covers something like 93% of all Americans, who are mostly concentrated into metropolitan areas. That's mote than 250 million of us. While verizon definitely as more acrage covered, it only affects a few percent of actual population. For the 93% of us that do have AT&T coverage, the 3g experience on an iPhone us vastly superior, as proven by yet another independant test (they all come out this way. Everytime) Its that 5% vocal minority (and every tech writer in San Francisco) that complains about AT&T coverage. Look around, practically everyone you see has an iPhone. And they all have coverage right this minute. And it's faster than your droid or bb on verizon right this minute. It keeps gettig proven over and over and over. Where's your map for that?

Everyone says AT&T has a smaller 3G network. True. For now.
Wait until Verizon replaces their entire network in the entire country to change to LTE.
I bet there will be more 3G/LTE devices than EVDO/LTE devices in three years. Meaning AT&T will have a broader network. The benefit is there will be better roaming among the two meaning they'll effectively have the same network.

In New York City my data speed over 3G has been noticably faster since the first of the year; on the downside, I have experience dropped calls for the first time -- just a few, a strange cluster of dropped calls in January.

While I won't dispute the results, it really is meaningless if AT&T doesn't provide 3G coverage in your area. Here in Iowa, 3G is only available in 3 places - Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and the Quad Cities. Sure, we're not as metro as other states, but those speeds don't do any of us any good if we live/work in other localities. I would love to get the iPhone, but the coverage is simply NOT there where I live and work...and I'm not out in the sticks, but in one of the largest cities in the state. That's the real downside to this survey.

I live in Newark, NJ (8 miles from Manhattan) and I have definitely noticed a change in dropped calls. Although, it's still somewhat of a problem as well as message send failures. It's good to see that improvements are being made.

I don’t think there has ever been any doubt that AT&T 3G was faster. The issue is the coverage. It is a known fact the Verizon has a much broader 3G coverage area and has less issues attempting to get a signal and drops by far less calls than AT&T does.
I live in Phoenix and I carry an iPhone 3GS and Moto Droid…. As far as reliability goes throughout the entire valley, east/west, Verizon beats AT&T hands down…